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So in live 8, there was a way to add layers to a drum rack cell by holding ctr (cmd on mac) and dragging the sample onto the cell. The cell would be labeled multi to let you know you had multiple samples on that cell

I'm using live 9 and I can't seem to do this. I tried holding ctr, shift + ctr, nothing works. It just puts the new sample in a separate cell next to where I dropped it. I even tried manually creating a new chain within the drum cell and dragging the sample into it, but that just creates another midi note essentially and if I wanted it to be layered I'd have to draw in new midi notes instead of having the same midi note triggering all the samples I want from that drum cell.

Has anyone else seen this? Know a work around?

Just tried to replicate this to see what the deal was, I was surprised that I hadn't noticed this before! Indeed, when I made a new chain and added another sample into it, it just placed it on the pad next to it!

However, I was able to find a solution. If you hold down alt, or whatever the mac equivalent is, when dragging your sample on top of the already occupied cell and then drop it onto it, it will auto group those two samples into an instrument rack which will then have both of them play at the same time, like one would expect. I don't know if this was the 'solution' you were looking for but I hope it was a bit helpful! Hopefully someone else can chime in and give us the big reveal as to what we are doing wrong.

Actually that was it precisely. It's only slightly annoying that it adds it as a separate instrument rack since I have to readjust the volume levels of each layer, but at least I can get all the layers I need to be triggered by the same midi note